Starring: Riz Ahmed, Nigel Lindsey, Kayvan Novak, Mohammad Aqil, Adeel Akhtar, Craig Parkinson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kevin Eldon
Certificate: 15
Genre: Comedy
Awards: None
Four Lions is a british comedy about incompetent Islamic terrorists. Now that's not something you see everyday. It's no surprises that it comes from the mind of Chris Morris - a controversial figure in british television who is most famous for the fake documentary series Brass Eye that tricked celebrities into backing fake campaigns such as an elephant with its trunk stuck up its anus.The film follows Omar (Ahmed), a radical muslim who wants to blow up something in the name of Islam. Unfortunately his crew are as useful as a box of wet matches. There's the gullible Waj (Novak), the half crazed Faisal (Akhtar) and the extremist of extremists Barry (Lindsey) who all mess up Omar's plans to blow up the London Marathon.
Four Lions is a side-splittingly funny film that may seem slightly harsh due to its subject matter, but you're never really rooting for the characters as you know there is no way they could pull it off. You know it's going to end badly and you keep watching until it does.
****Good
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